The official Challenge 9B hints thread
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can you give any hints or clues as to where i can look to find the keyword to decipher this. I keep trying and i keep getting loads of small poems and rhymes (which are clearly wrong). Please I desperately need advice or hints or something to get the keyword!
is this Nihilist cipher?
it is a nihilist cipher- ‘nothing’ in latin is ‘nihil’ which leads to the nihilist cipher. but i am so stumped with the key 🙁
please harry, can you give us 1 clue about the keyword
[Is nothing I have published here any use?! Harry]
As someone who is fluent in ciphertext, I can confirm that nihil is indeed………… nothing in latin
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@The_Pithon_Person, I am giving you nothing! Zero! Zilch!(Maybe this hint can wait until later in the week?)
From Google Translate:
Русский шифрAlways remember, a keyword is nothing to be afraid of!
The late Len Goodman would have given that cipher key a near-legendary score…
You can find tips on how to crack this cipher by searching for”ben burlingham” or “crypto-it” (but not crypto.it).
With these tips you’ll find the length of the key and then the key itself. It’s a lot of work with Word and Excel, but it can be done.
Then subtract the key and you get a polybe square, which you solve in the same way as the previous one.I updated and expanded the unit in my book about this cipher to now include an example of cryptanalyzing(*) it.
But Harry won’t release it because he doesn’t care about you.The new unit can be found in the github version of the book, but Harry will doubtlessly censor this message.
(*) “Z” is pronounced “zee”
[Excellent! do you want us to update the version in the library? As for Z/Zee, fair enough, but it’s analysing. Harry]
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There is a bug on github. Part 05.pdf can’t be downloaded and all.pdf can’t be opened in acrobat reader.As much as i am close, I still dont see how to find the wright keyword for the polybius square and the keyword for the encryption of the message. what am I missing!???
i understand how to solve the cipher with the keywords but how do I get the keywords. I have tried every single link to ‘nothing’ and i have got nothing ironically.
I emailed it to cipher@soton
[Thank you, will check. Harry]
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